Creating a Customized Professional Development Program, Part 2

In Part 1, we completed a 21st Century Skills Professional Development Worksheet to clarify the goals of our program. In Part 2, we'll look at using an assessment to determine where skills training might be best applied.

In Part 1, we completed a 21st Century Skills Professional Development Worksheet to clarify the goals of our program. In Part 2, we'll look at using an assessment to determine where skills training might be best applied.

For a training regimen to be truly useful in a modern setting, it must be flexible. And in order to take advantage of that flexibility, focus must be narrowed.

An assessment built on standards such as ISTE NETS-T, and covering more than just technical skills, helps define a clear path for each individual. It may also indicate institutional deficiencies, allowing for effective large-scale change in training policy.

In Part 1, we completed a 21st Century Skills Professional Development Worksheet to clarify the goals of our program. In Part 2, we'll look at using an assessment to determine where skills training might be best applied.

In Part 1, we completed a 21st Century Skills Professional Development Worksheet to clarify the goals of our program. In Part 2, we looked at using an assessment to determine where skills training might be best applied. Part 3 looked

Over the next six weeks we will be taking a deeper look into the PD worksheet you have used previously. Download the 21st Century Skills Professional Development Worksheet here. Determining the Participants of Your Professional Development Program Before you can

The great news on the PD front—at least from the districts who presented at the second School CIO Summit Conference this June—is that we’ve moved far away from the days of drive-by PD in which socalled experts come in once a year to show teachers how to use product X and expect them to begin using it perfectly by the very next day.